Hinge mounted support



2,927,761 i te ted Mar- .1960

2,927,761 HINGE MOUNTED surronr' Joseph A. Marfiellmfiempstead, N;Y; Application Mans. 1959, st-an Ni. 816,958 a 3 Claims. or. 248 426) This. invention relates to a novel. support. primarily adapted for supporting garment hangers and garments which are suspended therefrom, and more particularly to asupport which may b'e'quickly applied to or removedrom a conventional door hinge.-

More particularly, it is an aim of the present invention to provide a support which may be readily attached to a conventional door hinge, as for example, the upper hinge of a closet door to provide means for utilizing the space adjacent the outer side of a closet door for supporting garments, or which support may be mounted readily on any other door hinge, such as a bedroom door, for supporting garment hangers and garments suspended therefrom.

A further object of the invention is to provide a sup port which is capable of swinging readily about the axis of a door hinge and which can thus be positioned so that the support will not interfere with swinging movement of the door.

Various other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter become more fully apparent from the following description of the drawing, illustrating a presently preferred embodiment thereof, and wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view showing the support mounted on a door hinge;

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical sectional view of the support, taken substantially along the line 2-2, of Figure 3, and

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view taken substantially along the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Referring more specifically to the drawing, the support in its entirety and comprising the invention is designated generally 5 and includes an upper socket member 6, a lower abutment member 7, and a lower socket member 8 which is disposed between the upper socket member 6 and the abutment member 7. The lower socket memher 8 has a bore 9 extending vertically therethrough and through which a portion of a rod 19 loosely extends. An upper end of the rod 10 is secured in a socket portion 11 of the upper socket member 6 by a pin 12 and the lower end of the rod 10 is secured in an upwardly opening socket portion 13 of the abutment member 7 by a pin or fastening 14, for slidably confining the lower socket member 8 on the rod 10 between the upper socket member 6 and the abutment member 7.

The lower socket member 8 has an upwardly opening socket portion 15 which is laterally spaced from the bore 9 and which has a flared seat 16 at its open upper end. The socket member 8 has a bore 17 opening through the underside thereof and upwardly into the socket portion 15. A rod 18 has a lower portion extending through a vertical bore 19 of the abutment 7 and which is secured immovably to said abutment by apin or fastening 20. The rod 18 has an upper end fitting loosely in the bore 17. A compression spring 21 is disposed loosely around the guide rod 18 between the abutment 7 and the lower socket member 8 for urging said socket member 8 up wardly toward the socket member 6. The socket membet, 6. is. providedwith, a downwardly. openinglsocket portion 22: which. is, disposed in alignment with the. socket portion 15 and which has a flared open lower end ram, ingaseat 23., V V I 7 7 The lower'socket-member 8. has a socket portion 24 opening laterally thereof and they upper socket member rings a socket portion 25 which likewise opens laterally and-in, the samedirection as the'socket portion 24 and which socket portion. 25. is inclined downwardly 'at a h s-ee w rd i s seen d.-.. h ss arden 2 4, and 25. are; disposedremote from the so ke port ons 15. and, 22, respectively. A relatively heavy gauge, rod

. 26: is bfint .,back upon itself, approximately midway. of

its ends, to. pr vid a, substantially r ght l w r le 2 7"h'avinga distalend which is securedin the socket by a: fastening 28.. Therod 26, also provides an upper leg .29v the. distal end of. which-is: secured by a. fastening Sit in the socket 25. The upper leg 25! forms a brace whichis inclined downwardly and outwardly relative to the lower leg 27 and which is joined at itsouter end to the outer end of the leg 27 by a rounded intermediate portion 31 of the rod 26. The rod 26 is suificiently resilient so that the legs 27 and 29 may be sprung away from one another to permit the lower socket member 8 to be moved away from the upper socketmember 6 and toward the abutment 7.

For the purpose of illustrating the application of the support 5, a portion of a door 37 isshown and also a portion of the door frame 32 and which constitutes a part ofthe jamb of the door frame. The door 37 is swingably mounted in the door frame in a conventional manner by means of conventional hinges. The upper hinge 33 of the door is shown having conventional hinge pintle knobs or caps 34 at the ends of the hinge barrel. The seats 16 and 23 are sized and shaped so that the rounded outer portions of the knobs or caps 34 may seat therein. To apply the support 5 to the hinge 33, it is merely necessary to engage the socket portion 22 of the upper socketmember 8 over the upper hinge knob 34 so that it will seat in the seat 23, afterwhich a downward pull is exerted on the lower socket member 8 for displacing it away from the upper socket member 6 sutdciently so that the support 5 may be rocked about The lower socket member 8 can then be released and the spring 21 will force it upwardly so that the lower'hinge knob 34 will engage in the seat 16, as clearly illustrated in Figure 2, for thus mounting the support 5 on the hinge 33. To remove the support 5 from the hinge 33 it is merely necessary to pull downwardly on the lower socket member 8 to move it from its full line to its dotted line position of Figure 2., after which the support can be swung about the upper hinge knob 34 to cause the socket portion 15 to clear the lower hinge knob 34, so that the support 5 may be lifted off of the hinge 33.

The spring 21 is of sufficient strength to maintain the seat 16 tightly in engagement with the lower hinge knob 34 when a number of conventional garment hangers, not shown, are suspended on the garment hanger supporting part '27, and when said garment hangers are supporting garments.

A bumper 35, preferably formed of rubber, has a fastening 36 which extends through the garment hanger Various modifications and changes are contemplated and may beresorted to, without departing from the function or scope of the invention as hereinafter definedby the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:' p

'1. A hinge mounted support comprising an upper member, a lower member, a rod extending between and having its ends secured to said upper and lower members, an intermediate member having a bore through which said rod loosely extends for slidably mounting the intermediate member between the upper member and lower member, spring means disposed between and bearing against said intermediate member and lower member for' urging the intermediate member upwardly toward said upper member, said upper member and intermedi: ate member having socket portions opening towardone another adapted to receive pintle knobs of a door hinge for positioning said upper member and intermediate member above and beneath,trespectively, the door hinge for mounting the support on the hinge, and a supporting arm fixed to and extending outwardly from said intermediate member and disposed substantially crosswise of the rod. a

2. A hinge mounted support as in claim 1, said support arm constituting one end of a rod, said rod having an opposite end fixed to and extending downwardly and outwardly from said upper member and a rounded intermediate portion connecting said rod ends remote from said upper member and intermediate member, said last mentioned rod end constituting a brace for the support arm. g

3. A hingemounted support as in claim 1, said spring means comprising a compression spring, and a spring guide having a lower portion fixed to said lower member and an upper portion slidably mounted in said intermediate member, said "spring guide extending loosely through said compressionspring.

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